All of the Conner kids made a comeback on the much-anticipated Roseanne reboot (except for Jerry), but fans will remember that Roseanne Barr wasn’t the only mother on the show.
Laurie Metcalf’s character Jackie Harris gave birth to a son named Andy Harris during Season 6, but will he make an appearance on the new show?
At the 2018 Winter TCA press tour, Roseanne explained to PopSugar why Andy would not be returning to the reboot for the first season. “We haven’t dealt with Andy, Laurie’s son, yet,” she said. “But we had so many stories to tell over the arc of these nine episodes that we were hoping for another season to bring more clarity to those characters.”
And another season they did get, but without Roseanne. The spinoff show, The Conners, premiered on October 16, but there’s still has yet to be a mention of Andy, although Jackie was front and center in the first episode.
In case you forgot, inn the “Labor Day” episode of Roseanne, which aired in 1994, Jackie’s son was born and played by two sets of infant twins. Andy was later shown as a toddler until the show’s end in 1997.
Fraternal twins Garrett and Kent Hazen were the first brothers to play Andy for three seasons, People reported in 2000. “When they were tiny babies, Kent liked it more, and as they got older Garrett enjoyed it more,” the Hazen’s real-life mother, Karen Hazen, told People. “He did a speaking part. He got to say, ‘Grandma’s crazy.’ That was a highlight. I look at the show as such a blessing.”
Garrett Hazen spoke with GoodHousekeeping.com about what he and his brother have been up to since their time on the show. “I became obsessed with the guitar at a young age, and for the last few years have dove pretty deep into writing and recording music under my name,” Garrett shares. “I just released my second EP, ‘Gold.'”
His brother has taken on a completely new career path. “My twin brother Kent is a twitch streamer for live role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons, and other video game content on his channel,” Garrett says.
When asked whether he would reprise the role of Andy on the original Roseanne reboot, Garrett told us in April that he would definitely consider it. “I would be so open to it,” he says. “I love film/tv and binge watch as many shows as I can. Being on the stage has always been where I feel the most like myself, and acting is another extension of the stage for me.”
However, producers did not contact Hazen or his brother for the part. Identical twins Tyler and Trevor Battaglia, who took on the role just before the series ended, are no longer in the entertainment business, Tyler told GoodHousekeeping.com.
Tyler and Trevor Battaglia in present day.
“My brother and I aren’t acting anymore, but we also were wondering what would happen to our part when the show returned,” Tyler said.
